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What triggered the hostilities at this otherwise serene place on the edge of Concord was when the government took arms against its citizens.

The Declaration of Independence was motivated by the long series of grievances the colonists suffered from, at that time, their monarch.

Along a thirteen mile stretch of California 62 a few miles west of Vidal Junction, the highway runs beside both a railroad and an irrigation canal. There are no houses, no restaurants, no filling stations, not even any deserted shacks. Just the canal, the tracks and the road.

I asked him, “When you’re not traveling, Joe, where’s home?”

Curiosity is on it’s way this morning to Mars for the next eight months. Launched this morning atop an Atlas V vehicle, Curiosity is the size of a small car, several times the weight, and carries many times the scientific instruments of its predecessor rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.